It's seldom you see so many willfully ignorant people in one room.

[lpbk2713]

Trump is at the podium at CPAC and the cameras pan the audience from
time to time and they are looking at the asshole with their mouths gaping
and their eyes wide open as if he were a rock star. It's hard to believe they
could assemble that many stupid people in one room to listen to this clown
ramble on and on and still not say anything meaningful.

[FSogol]

1. If the sprinkler system went off, they might all look up and drown.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. EO's coming out filled with hate and violence against the least powerful

White American christians, most, not all, are horrible people and cant wait to exact tremendous pain and death on all they hate.

Personally, I am hoping they get a reaction. But that wont do any good either, the fascists are in control of everything.

Too bad the non patriot GOP doesnt care that Putin stole the election. Wow, I thought they were patriots, guess not.

[democratisphere]

3. drumpf spewing his Alt-right republiCON propoganda.

30-40% of Americans are fools and will believe anything they are told. It is amazing.

[Stuart G]

4. Well said...nt

[democrank]

5. Trump worship makes perfect sense to many who believe

thousands of New Jersey Muslims cheered on 9/11, global warming is a hoax, and dinosaurs were on the ark.

[dem4decades]

6. Red Hat Idiot Society

[Wounded Bear]

7. Your average Super Church does that weekly...

sometimes several times a week.

[nolabear]

8. I was impressed with how YOUNG they were.

Since it's an invitation only event I assume they're training Young Nazis. He practically sang "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" there at the end.

The biggest responses seemed to be for 2nd and Amendment and Law Enforcement. I smell the NRA.

[flygal]

11. Liberty University

Link to tweet

[flygal]

9. Apparently Liberty University bussed a bunch of students in

Probably mandatory attendance to graduate.

[lpbk2713]

14. Dumbya used to do that for his photo-op pep rallies.

He would schedule them near military installations and low ranking service
members would be expected to attend in order to fill the seats.

[skypilot]

10. I've been thinking about...

...starting a thread about something but I'll just comment on it here. Sometimes it seems to me that over the past forty years or so cult recruitment techniques have been perfected, refined and implemented stealthily on a mass scale. I seem to remember that years ago people were extremely wary of something like Amway and anyone associated with it, and now it's practically mainstream. They even have their own arena. And, of course, there's Betsy DeVos. It just seems that there was a time when people in cults were a relatively small number of damaged and vulnerable people and now it seems as though there are a number of massive cults operating in this country: Amway, Scientology, Trump-supporting Republicans...

[flygal]

12. OMG I was going to start this same thread!!

Great minds!

I have a friend who tried to recruit us and I read up a LOT on Amway. They have so many mandatory events. It a grift. The top people make their money on merch and attendance. That's why there are so many of these conservative conventions.

I was in Vegas and happened upon a MLM convention. I think it was Rodan and Fields. My god the stuff they were carrying around. Besides buying all the product, I'm sure the speakers made some money off that convention as well.

Slate ran an article this week about MLMs expecting to thrive under trump.

[skypilot]

13. I'm going to look for that article.

I think this kind of thing has gained a substantial and dangerous foothold in our society. Oh, and I meant to add Prosperity Gospel adherents to the list in the above post.